Chris Hall

JUNE 14, 2024

Ceres CEO Mindy Lubber opened her testimony asserting: “Climate change, water scarcity and pollution, and nature loss … pose material financial risks to investment portfolios, business operations and supply chains, thus to the long-term stability of our markets and the economy.”

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The measures serve as a reminder of the long-term consequences of the invasion, for human rights on the ground, and for business and investment ties further afield. Divestment from Russian investments was a complex affair and an incomplete one.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 9, 2022

One might expect governance ratings to change over time rather than overnight,” said a sustainable investment analyst at a large UK-based asset owner. . Any decision made to disengage or divest must be done in a responsible fashion, including scrutinising for any unintended human rights consequences.” .

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Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2023

It also tries to identify the risk of human rights abuses of refugees in supply chains. Students are also starting to pressure their universities to divest from border and surveillance companies. It includes tracking company refugee programmes such as support for entrepreneurship or specialised training.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

According to its analysis, private equity firms have snapped up oil, gas and coal assets worth US$60 billion over the past two years, many divested by listed firms in response to the environmental concerns of institutional investors. Removing impediments. Lawyers say clients across sectors are currently being asked to walk a fine line.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 6, 2022

Meanwhile in the asset management sector, Legal & General Investment Management said it would divest from Russian sovereign debt and the manager has reduced total exposure to 0.1% of AUM or £1.3 billion. .

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2023

Nature is at the base of every supply chain. For now, business understanding and disclosure of nature risk – both from investee firms’ direct operations and along their supply chains – is patchy at best, with firms in the APAC region lagging global peers. Ecosystem services are absolutely critical to the creation of GDP.

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Sustainability Update

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Oliver Balch reports that new research from the campaign group Fashion Revolution indicates that 53% of the world’s biggest 250 fashion brands still lack a firm decarbonization target, and only one in 10 of the global brands studied disclose details of their energy procurement at the supply chain level.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 25, 2022

Will Martindale, Group Head of Sustainability at fiduciary manager and pension provider Cardano , has been on the front-line helping pension funds to implement their disclosure requirements and says this has been made more challenging by a lack of data from investee companies, particularly on Scope 3 (supply chain) emissions.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 21, 2023

There is a lack of clear economic incentives across markets to invest in GHG reduction, for example, due to the inconsistent introduction of carbon pricing. Today, the pension fund has evolved its approach to sustainability, integrating consideration of ESG factors through the lifecycle of the investment.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 13, 2024

Many investors also have weapons-focused exclusions enshrined in their investment policies. Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s 2024 statement on sustainable investing, for instance, alluded to its exclusionary framework – which included civilian firearms and controversial weapons. “The

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